Le″o‐nine (lē″ō̍‐nīn), a. [L. leoninus, fr. leo, leonis, lion: cf. F. léonin. See Lion.] Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine rapacity. — Le″o‐nine‐ly, adv.
Leonine verse, a kind of verse, in which the end of the line rhymes with the middle; — so named from Leo, or Leoninus, a Benedictine and canon of Paris in the twelfth century, who wrote largely in this measure, though he was not the inventor. The following line is an example:
Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum.